Board of Directors

Alex Hambro

Non-Executive Chairman

Alex has been engaged in the private
equity industry both in the UK and the USA for over 28 years during which time
he has acted as a principal investor, manager and sponsor of private equity and
venture capital management teams and adviser to high net worth families on
their private equity investment strategies. Alex managed Hambros PLC’s
proprietary venture capital and private equity investment portfolio prior to
its sale to Societe ́ Generale in
1998. Alex is a founder director of Crescent Capital, a venture capital
fund based in Belfast, and Judges Scientific plc, a scientific instrumentation
manufacturing group. In addition to his Chairmanship responsibilities at these
two companies, Alex is a non-executive Chairman or director of Falanx
Group plc, Izon
Science Ltd, Octopus Apollo VCT PLC and Time Partners Ltd.

Philip Newby

Chief Executive

Phil joined OTAQ in June 2014 as
commercial director and was appointed chief executive in March 2016. From
1993 to 1997 he was general manager of Unique Systems LLC an offshore equipment
rental business operating in the Middle East and India. From 1997 to 2011 Phil
was chief executive of Trelleborg Offshore a business that supplied flowline
and cable protection to the offshore oil and gas industry.

Simon Walters

Chief Financial Officer

Since 2003, Simon has provided finance
director services to a portfolio of listed and unlisted companies in various
sectors, currently through Headline FD Limited, of which he is founder and a
director. After qualifying, Simon worked in corporate finance at the forerunner
of BDO for several years, subsequent to
which he became FD at quoted property company Molyneux and associated
companies, Wood Hall Securities, and quoted companies Shani plc, AFC Energy plc
and Neville Porter plc. He has considerable FD experience at companies in
myriad sectors.

George Watt

Non Executive Director

George started his career in practice
with KPMG where he qualified and worked for 10 years in the UK and the US.
He then joined STV Group plc in 1999 where he spent 20 years as Chief Financial
Officer before retiring from the Board in 2019. George is currently
non-executive Chairman of Spaceandpeople plc,
an AIM-quoted destination media and retail solutions specialist operating in
the UK and Germany and has held other non-executive director positions in the
technology sector.

Sarah Gills

Non Executive Director

Sarah is a graduate in Marine Biology and
Oceanography from the National Oceanography Centre at the University of
Southampton. She is an entrepreneur whose experience includes the management of
yacht racing around the world, property development and litigation support. She
is an active investor and is currently assisting in the corporate development
of AIM-quoted company, Franchise Brands plc.